Apr 21
Many people are turning to alternative therapies for cancer treatment as the mainstream treatments failed ti yield the desired results or the side effects are too severe for many to bear.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) maintains and regularly updates library that provides information on the effectiveness of “alternative and complementary treatments,” or ACT’s. Versions for professionals and the general public are available on line. For those who have been diagnosed with cancer, as well as those who are in treatment that includes chemotherapy, this information is definitely worth a look. Depending on where you live these complementary treatments may be readily available; alternatively, you may need to be assertive in order to find and access them.
What has become known as the new grief refers to an increasingly lengthy process that has been made possible by medical advances in diagnosis and treatment. These advances have literally transformed the nature of death and dying over the past 40 years, and we must assume that they will continue to do so. The stages that patients and their families can expect to go through, beginning when a diagnosis is rendered, are described in “Saying Goodbye: How Families Can Find Renewal through Loss.” Beginning with the first stage of the new grief–Crisis–we advocate that families try as best they can to rally resources. As soon as the initial shock is absorbed (at least enough so that family members are not paralyzed) it is extremely helpful if someone in the family can step up and help to create a team.
Tagged with: cancer
Mar 23
Many people are turning to traditional Chinese medicine to treat modern illnesses.
Kent Young Health Products Center & Co. in Chicago’s Chinatown sells over 400 herbs for a variety of ailments. These include the common cold, nausea and digestive problems, urinary tract infections, high blood pressure and cancer, said Jian Qiang Yang, a licensed acupuncturist and co-owner of the store.
Yang – who also goes by the name Kent Young – graduated from Zhongshan Medical College in China. He practiced acupuncture and studied herbs there before coming to America in 1994. To become licensed to practice acupuncture in the U.S., he studied for three more years and passed a test administered by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Tagged with: Modern
Mar 17
Green tea can reduce cancer risks in men and women and regular consumption of green tea is highly recommended by healthcare professionals.
“It is just so comforting for people to sit down to a cup of tea,” says Ilene Winters, founder of the Eatontown and Toms River branchs of the Wellness Community. The cancer-support center also has an affiliate in Bedminster. But experts are learning that some teas may be more than just comforting for those struggling with cancer. Studies have linked tea with helping everything from tumor growth to diabetes to pregnancy.
James Howard, the proprietor of Cozy Cupboard Tea House in Convent Station, strongly believes in the medicinal powers of tea, which is the number two most consumed beverage in the world after water.
“There is no doubt that tea has huge benefits,” he says. “It is packed with powerful antioxidants. A lot of doctors are in favor of drinking several cups of tea a day.”
Tagged with: cancer
Mar 10
Ginseng has been shown to be an effective treatment for type two diabetes.
Nowadays, many herbs and alternatives happen to be found as treatments for Type Two Diabetes. If you want to try taking in all-natural therapy with each other along with your drug regimens, it really is advised that you simply really should first check with your physician. Some therapy can interact using the drugs you might be taking. If type 2 diabetes is just not properly managed or managed, final results could be complicated and lifestyle threatening. Keeping tract or recording the herbs, health supplements and nutritional vitamins you might be taking is actually a must. It is also important to provide your doctor a copy.
Tagged with: diabetes
Feb 25
Many people are turning to Chinese medicine to fight off flu
“Big Snake Mak” has a secret weapon to fend off the threat of flu – it wriggles and hisses in a basket at his side.
Snakes have been used in China for thousands of years to cure a host of ailments – snake-fermented wine for arthritis, snake genitals for the kidneys and male sex drive, snake gall bladder for bronchitis.
And snake, says “Big Snake Mak” – otherwise known as serpent salesman Mak Tai-kwong – is a proven flu fighter.
“Those that eat snake bile four to five times every year will have a stronger body and will have much lower chances of contracting the flu,” Mak told AFP as he pulled a king cobra from his basket that he will kill, cook up and sell.
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Feb 24
For many cancer patients, Chinese medicine is a good support system that help them get through the pain and side effects from cancer treatments.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is one of the oldest continuous systems of medicine in history. More Americans are also using acupuncture, herbal remedies and other components of traditional Chinese medicine than ever before. A consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting.
The goal of this presentation is to provide useful and accurate information on Chinese medicine including how acupuncture works, clinical applications of acupuncture for patients with cancer, what oncology patients should know when selecting an acupuncturist, how Chinese herbal medicine is used to support patients going through chemotherapy and radiation, an analysis of individual herbs for support while receiving chemotherapy and more.
Tagged with: cancer
Feb 21
Green Tea can help stem the tide of prostate cancer, a recent study has found.
Green tea appears to inhibit the spread of prostate cancer in a number of ways, says a study in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer Research.
In research with mice, scientists from the University of Wisconsin and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland found green tea polyphenols (GTP) target molecular pathways that control the proliferation and spread of prostate tumor cells. The polyphenols also inhibit the growth of blood vessels that feed prostate tumors.
Tagged with: Prostate cancer
Feb 12
Green tea’s strong antioxidant effects have many positive applications for various diseases including cancer and aging.
Scientific research conducted at Newcastle University and published in the journal Phytomedicine explains how our body activates green tea compounds to provide enhanced disease protection. Lead researcher Dr. Ed Okello found “when green tea is digested by enzymes in the gut, the resulting chemicals are actually more effective against key triggers of Alzheimer’s development than the undigested form of the tea.”
The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer`s disease that is known to be a progressive and irreversible disorder resulting in loss of cognitive function. It is widely accepted that the disease is the result of damage from hydrogen peroxide free radicals and an inability to efficiently clear amyloid beta proteins that form brain plaques.
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Feb 08
Traditional Chinese medicine is being used more and more in fighting ailments that cannot be readily taken care of by Western medicine.
Welcome in 4709, the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, using the Pacific School of Oriental Medicine’s family and learn Chinese nutrition and health suggestions from Magnolia Goh, Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Pioneer in the US. Her suggestions about what foods to eat, what spices to make use of and tips on how to use Chinese medicine techniques to ward off what ails you, will keep you in top condition this winter.
Jan 27
Green tea’s antioxidant effects are well known; now there’s evidence that it is linked to greatly reduce incidence of stomach cancer.
As if you needed another reason to drink green tea: Japanese women, but not Japanese men, who regularly drink 5 or more cups daily appear about 20 percent less likely to develop stomach cancer, study findings hint.
Researchers have studied green tea in cancer prevention because they suspect that the drink’s antioxidants may protect against the deadly disease. In particular, it may include compounds that fight bacteria that have been linked to stomach cancer.
However, previous studies were inconsistent, researchers write their report in the journal Gut. To get a better sense of green tea’s potential effects, Dr. M. Inoue, at the National Cancer Center in Tokyo, examined six older studies.
Tagged with: Stomach Cancer
